Class discussion (per each source)
#1 - Shows how learning would be like at school and work in the (near) future.
#2 - His book, the world is flat is one of the most popular sources people use to
support globalization. See which 'flatteners' Friedman says as driving
globalization. If you are keen on social justice and sustainable
economic development, you will find Cambridge prof. Chang's work,
entitled Bad Samaritans and his other work to be fascinating. He is not a capitalism skeptic.
#3
- His book Growing up digital captures core characteristics of digital youth very well, and discusses implications for organizations (hiring, career, development, etc.). Together, #1~3 gives both - positive and critical aspects of technology, innovation, and globalization. Infographics and data can be very useful for understanding any abstract but important phenomenon, such as global development (by Hans Rosling, 20 min TED talk).
#4 - Interested in leveraging social media for good causes? Based on a Stanford course on using social media, book includes many great cases as well as a model/framework for effectively planning/analyzing, designing, and implementing social media projects.
#5 - Creating and leading a 'great' learning system is not easy, it involves visionary leaders, students, effective processes and support. Revisiting cases from Finland and Singapore from W2 will be very helpful seeing exemplary cases for Ken's talk.
#4 - Interested in leveraging social media for good causes? Based on a Stanford course on using social media, book includes many great cases as well as a model/framework for effectively planning/analyzing, designing, and implementing social media projects.
#5 - Creating and leading a 'great' learning system is not easy, it involves visionary leaders, students, effective processes and support. Revisiting cases from Finland and Singapore from W2 will be very helpful seeing exemplary cases for Ken's talk.
- A day made of glass (by Corning, 6 min)
- Thomas L. Friedman’s 2007 MIT talk “The World is Flat 3.0” (Listen up to 37 minutes)
- Growing up digital by Don Tapscott (26 min) (If further interested, also watch his 2012 TED talk: 4 principles of the open world, 17 min)
- Dragonfly effect (changing the world using social media) - Blog site
- Lastly, to make education right, it should be on teaching and learning, not on standardized tests or STEM only. Key Robinson is one of the most popular TED presenters. If you plan to create a holistic and systematic learning system, try applying his principles. Watch How to Escape Education's Death Valley (TED Talk, 19 min) and also Do School kills creativity? (20 min). How YouTube is driving innovation (Chris Anderson, TED talk, 18 min) can be one example of educational innovations.
Further
resources - * Each source can take a while to read/review. You can
skim each briefly, then devote more time later to peruse for particular
interests.
- Jonathan Bergmann’s and Aaron Sams’ Educational Vodcasting - Their video screen casting has evolved to a pedagogy called Flipped Classroom (2 min video)
- Horizon Report, a collaboration between The New Media Consortium and the Educause Learning Initiative. 2013's key focus from NMC is big data in education. A short video about 6 trends in higher ed is worth watching.
- KnowledgeWorks Foundation 2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning. The World of Learning Resources menu has several short clips that capture educational/learning trends. They also added forecast for learning in 2025.
- 7 Things You Should Know About series from Educause
Exemplary
projects and initiatives - Last week, when we talked about learning 2.0, many said participating in and utilizing (online professional) communities as the best way
to leverage learning 2.0. You
can click open each of the following, spend no more than a minute or
two, can join selectively to spend more time later.
- Beyond Borders- if looking for education-oriented virtual communities around the world
- Kiva (empowering the world with $25 micro loan)
- The Open Source Teaching Project
- California Open Source Textbook Project, CK12 FlexBooks, Connexions - digital, open source book initiatives
- Academic Earth (from Rice Univ), MITOpenCourseWare, Open Learning Initiative (from Carnegi Mellon), Stanford on iTunesU, Open.Michigan. and of course, the famous Coursera (free courses from a consortium of leading universities). Also check Udacity.
- Google Scholar, DigitalCommons@UConn, DASH, eScholarship
- OER Commons (if needing to design/develop a new college level course, the first place to check - often, all weekly contents/assignments are shared), Creative Commons (every educator must know about Creative Commons, which is to share contents and handle copyright easier), Wikimedia Commons, Europeana, Open Culture, TED: Ideas worth spreading
- University of the People, Peer 2 Peer University, Think Global School
- Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is one of the latest hot buzz in education. Sites like MOOC list and Class Central aggregate MOOC schedule.
12 comments:
I noticed under "exemplary projects and initiatives" you included Wikimedia Commons, a source which has suffered much criticism since its conception. In the video starring Thomas Friedman, he also appeared to criticize Wikipedia. (Apparently his Wikipedia entry did not harbor wholly accurate information). However, the majority of Wikipedia articles students may use typically contain links to more reliable sources, and I support the use of Wikipedia in the learning environment. Not only will students learn the difference between veritable information and falsified information, but learn to protect themselves from the pitfalls of the "information super highway," an important lesson concerning internet security.
This is in response to the power points covered in class and the flat top video. I agree that there are some students that still do not understand the importance of education, but it is hard for them to grasp this idea because like the Power Point said, "Teachers see social media as disruptive". To a certain extent I feel that the teachers are doing the students a great disservice by not letting them experience these different medias. As a teacher may think however, these social sites are used for updating and commenting on things that are not in the curriculum. There is still a bit of work to be done before the teachers have a certain level of trust with the students using the web tools. The video about flat world is very interesting and feel that the teachers and students would greatly benefit from this web tool. I hope that teachers seriously consider this in the semesters to come.
There are a few good things about the web for input. Quick and easy to share with others. Problem is that the information could be inaccurate. There is always a rant about how bad Wikipedia is. Many newspapers and other forms of publishing are going digital in hopes of keeping current and allowing the information to be more easily accessible. Overall I would say that most subjects could do with a bit of web tools. In order to stay informed web tools are useful. They can also provide extra information on things one is interested in and that can be beneficial in the future.
Folks, all3 comments are balanced and support the positive aspects of relevance and usefulness, and also the potential weakness of inaccurate/poor quality info. From teaching and learning standpoints, one primary cause to the ineffectiveness of classroom teaching is the lack of pre-requisite knowledge (and also lack of motivation). In that sense, as D points out, if Web is incorporated partially at proper times, but reinforced with quality sources/info, such as voice or input from authority/professional, it has many potentials.
While reading the comments above, I noticed some speculation as to why educators were wary of the quality of content on the web. Well Teachers, let's face it, inaccurate information isn't found only on the web. It's in our history books and literature and it's a given that there will be revisions as new discoveries disprove scientific theories or opinions shift as to the meaning of Shakespeare's verse. That's the nature of the field. It's up to the educators to not only curate and verify the sources they present to their students but it is also an opportunity to teach students how to apply those skills themselves when searching web content; seize the chance to teach these critical thinking skills!
Very pointy, but analytical and great Angela. It can be a lame excuse to adopt and leverage these great tools. Week 4 tackles this issue, how to find and evaluate quality sources. Filtering that is discussed during this week is one of many approaches to address quality. Surely, pendulum seems to be moving to more use of web tools because students, clients, and the society demand it.
I found all these videos very interesting. The one about a glass screens was enlightening because it made me realize how fast we are actually moving towards that reality. Within the last year alone the samsung digital watch that you can talk into and googles web glass both prove this.
I also really liked the Growing up Digital video. It was nice seeing two men from an older generation discuss how much different this new generation is and that its not a bad thing. The world is changing exponentially every year into a new digital age, and hearing them talk about how youths being glued to our different types of screens might not be that bad of a thing with the direction the world is moving.
We as Americans are very Xenophobic, to find evidence of this fact all you have to do is go on to Facebook, and look at the posts and shares of an individual with a conservative mindset. The post are dealing with subject matter such as anger of having to press 1 for English, closing the boarders of the country and that it is somehow the presidents fault that certain situations are in their current state. Changing my train of thought or this ill just be a rant. I liked the video content about the flat world, but the world is only getting smaller for certain individuals, as mentioned in the filter bubble video, if someone only goes to certain sites, they will have no knowledge of Iraq web blogs, or whatever foreign issues are prevalent at the time. The majority of the American public have no interest in foreign affairs, they also seem to lack any real conviction in changing the real problems with their current living environment, as stated in the videos from the previous blog, we are dead last in the implementation of information technology in education, and I think for the most part this trend will continue. The people in control of this country do not want a knowledge-able workforce, they want a docile easily controlled workforce. But on that note, the Corning glass company is an American company and the products they make are quite innovative, when will we see the products that are showcased in their videos, probably in no sooner than 10 years. The problem is, the current majority of the public is not as able as they think to be able to multitask effectively; to be fair, if you were to administer tests asking people what content they did remember while multi-tasking the results would be dismal at best. The current education model does destroy creativity, the no-child left behind is still in place just not publicized, and the current classroom model will stay in place until a cost effective, or profit creating one can be created. In the whole I would love to say in a certain years time we will be at the same place as far as education as some of the other countries in the videos, but in reality I think the current situation will get worse before it gets better.
Our country is quite extraordinary being that it is full of inspiring and innovate individuals that tend to care more about satisfying their own needs before contributing to the greater good. We, as Americans, tend to unknowingly strive to be like the top percent of our country. The real issue with that is because the top percent is either under informed with critical issues, or that they simply do not care. With more and more people striving to achieve this life of luxury, more and more people are throwing away what they care and stand for within our country, as well as countries beyond our own. It may be true that America is the first one to jump at helping countries that have suffered natural disasters, but that’s not enough good to counteract the harm that we’ve created. In, Thomas L. Friedman’s 2007 MIT talk “The World is Flat 3.0” video, we’re not truly aware of how we are killing the environment and if that continues there will be nothing left to salvage. Sadly though, this video probably isn’t going to get the attention that it needs due to the filter bubble that the web has us trapped in. A filter bubble that hides us away from nearly all the problems of the outside world, because it tends to believe we are more interested in kitten videos. It would be great to have the technology shown in the video, “A day made of glass”, but that glass technology is not nearly as close as we want it to be. That is because our schools do in fact kill creativity, Ken Robinson’s talk brings up so many great examples of how creativity should be nurtured rather than hindered, but other countries are doing a much better job at it than we are. We’re still more tied to using books and scantrons rather than the web, so that glass video is nothing more than alluring CGI effects. “Growing up digital” shows that our generation is capable of accomplishing great educational strides due to how our brains function differently from past generations, and the “Dragonfly effect” supports that idea more with talking about how social media can impact education more. Alas though, technology has not had the chance to deeply embed itself into our educational standpoint. Social media is seen only as advertising gains and entertainment, and technology is used for other means besides education, so I don’t see any changes happening for awhile still.
I found all videos to have insightful information, however the one that stuck with me most was the A Day Made of Glass. This video was just overall neat to see, I know that if technology like that had been available to me in grade school, I would have enjoyed it a whole lot more. What I particularly like about this video is that it focuses on the beneficial uses of technology, especially for education. It showed students engaging in class activities, which is something that can be difficult now of days, especially with younger children. By getting them moving and actively involved, I feel that they have a better learning experience. Another thing this video portrayed was the sharing of medical files with another doctor who was across the world, showing the importance of connecting and sharing with others virtually. To think that this could be possible one day is amazing.
One thing a lot of people, not just Americans are known for is being selfish. This can stem from a number of things, such as being in poor living conditions and trying to work your way out of the situation to just coming from a negative background. Americans are often noted for being this way, but it can apply to anyone. My belief and view on it is that if we, as humans were able to stop looking to better only ourselves and try to improve the environment and world around us, we'd be a lot better off. You can see that a lot of people take many things for granted and because of that, they misuse resources/benefits that they have. Technology, and the web in particular offer an escape from reality, however, it also tends to make us more reliant on it. Often times now, we stay on our smartphones 24/7 and the idea of not having internet is terrifying.
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